Well, I've just let Mila loose and am working on the sequel (will write about ten to twenty in the series, I haven't' decided yet)...
Mila is a very sexy red-hot assassin: skilled in the use of weaponry, martial arts and so much more. She's bent on revenge against the corrupt politician and his daughter who almost ruined her life. Now it's her turn...
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I've always been a worrier. It's a pain in the arse as it's just wasted energy. Well, lately, I've decided to stop it (which is difficult as I'm diagnosed with anxiety disorder by my doctor lol) and what I find helpful are aromatherapy fragrant candles, de-stressing techniques (like writing more which takes your mind off worrying) and well, I've just reduced my level of worrying as I've had enough quite frankly.
Well, lo and behold, I wrote a little novella in a week, and it's the only story I've written so far that has sold three copies in its first five days.
Note to self then: stop worrying. Because, when we do that, our mind is 100% focused on what we're actually writing and it isn't distracted by pointless thoughts about other matters of which 99% never occur.
So, what I'm wondering is, whether the story is doing well because I'm more relaxed mentally. Or is it just a coincidence. Maybe it's because I changed my writing style completely for this crime thriller story.
Who knows? It's good to be flexible and adaptable as an author and to change things now and again.
But if my new work continues selling like it is as I'm publishing a lot more over the coming weeks and months, I'll have a new thing to worry about - un-publishing all of my previous books and completely re-writing them as that's the thing with a perfectionist with OCD and an anxiety disorder, we keep trying to improve things and even then we're not content with it.
I wrote a sixty-thousand-word romance novel in 15 days recently, edited it to within an inch of its life, stayed up to ridiculous hours (which isn't healthy so I've stopped it), and then this crime thriller in about a week, I was so tired, I didn't have the energy to worry lol. So I may have discovered a cure for excessive worrying - bloody wear yourself out through writing! But as I said, it's not a healthy method and sooner or later you'll suffer burnout. It's better to write as much as you can daily, but within reasonable limits. Everyone is different, what works for me may not work for you.
I'm currently working on the crime thriller sequel and oh it's so hot, I almost melted a pair of knickers, and the black swivelly (is that a word?) computer chair when writing certain steamy scenes as the sexual chemistry between Mila the beautiful charismatic assassin and her new man built to fever-pitch!
It's a crime thriller, not a pure erotica story, so I'm having to tone it down a lot in the sex department, but boy oh boy are those scenes as explosive as her explosives she detonates to remove the bad guys...
In the sequel, (up either this Friday or Friday the 14th but I'll do my best to publish it this Friday the 7th) I'm delving more into what Mila experienced during her forced training to become an assassin, when Roxy Lou (the bitch of a daughter of Ralph, the politician Mila had a night of passion with before she realised who he was). I'll be describing the horrific and deeply moving feelings she endured - almost to breaking point - and how she gradually found within herself, a strength of character and an inner reserve of power she didn't know she had - until pushed to the brink of despair. That survival instinct within each of us, that mental power we each possess and can harness anytime we choose to.
I found, when writing certain scenes, echoes of myself in the past (not as an assassin lol, but what I've overcome in my life too: depression, despair, being shy and not very confident in my twenties, and much more) and I found it quite therapeutic exorcising my 'demons' when releasing a fictional character - Mila - from hers.
Writing is very stress-relieving, it rids us of worrying (works for me anyway) and also, it helps us to release the past, freeing us in all sorts of ways.
Thank you to whoever downloaded my new thriller. I appreciate it more than I can ever say as it means someone out there enjoys my work.
There's more on the way, a lot more.
I write because I'm a writer and I enjoy bringing characters and stories to life and nothing pleases me more than entertaining people worldwide, but when I engross myself when creating a story, I have absolutely nothing to worry about and life is great. Unless I've run out of coffee. Now that's something to worry about as a writer without a cup of coffee nearby, is like a Nun without her cucumber plot and enormous candle!
Watch this space for a brand-new crime thriller series that I'll be writing sometime this year, featuring a Nun who is a goody-two-shoes by day, but a vigilante by night; sorting out the bad guys who have confessed to terrible crimes, only to walk the streets freely out of the Polices' custody. But for now, I've a lot to write in this current crime thriller series - They're Dancing with Danger - and a few novellas and novels to publish in other genres (sequels to The Salon and Zombies From Cardiff... and one or two other stories).
P.s. the 60k word romance novel I wrote recently, I did it under the pen name of Rosemary Quill.
How's that for a challenge: there's no sex, violence or horror in it whatsoever - just pure romance. I thought I'd find it difficult as I adore writing about sex, violence and horror, but I was pleasantly surprised; I enjoyed writing it. I'll publish the sequel in the near future.
A very good psychic told me a few years ago that I'd find my niche' to write in. Maybe it's crime thrillers. We'll see. Another told me it was Sci-fi, a genre I haven't written in yet but will do so this year. Time will tell. They could be completely inaccurate and it could be westerns or children's books!
I would miss my horror though. I grew up watching all the fabulous Hammer films (loved Christopher Lee's Dracula character) and now I am age 49 I have Hellraiser and Saw films in my collection, oh and Header (Edward Lee is amazing, in my opinion) and also the Hostel films. I may bring back old Ethel Morris in a sequel to The Little Old Lady Who Lived Down The Road. In ghost form... ;-) I could even write a series of the Orgasms on a Knife Edge story. That's the advantage of self-publishing; you can alter things from a stand-alone story to a series.
We'll see.
It would mean a lot to me if you could tell your friends about my books, or maybe leave reviews if you've enjoyed my work. Thank you.
Have a great week everyone. I intended this post to be short, but we Sagittarians do ramble on (sorry).
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